Agents2026-06-23 · source-backed
A paper on procedural memory asks whether agents actually reuse skills or just accumulate cruft.
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"Managing Procedural Memory in LLM Agents" argues the field's ability to produce reliable, reusable behavior from stored procedures is poorly understood, and studies control, adaptation, and evaluation. (arXiv) If you run persistent agents, this is the gap between "remembers the steps" and "reuses the skill correctly." Memory that isn't evaluated tends to become noise. Worth reading before you build a big procedural-memory layer you'll have to debug later.
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